The study revealed eight groups of operational actions of the political police against relatives of prisoners of conscience, to the detriment of their rights, property and labor relations< /h2>
The OCDH denounced patterns of harassment and repression against relatives of prisoners politicians in Cuba
The Cuban Human Rights Observatory (OCDH) denounced general patterns of harassment and repression, by the Communist Party, the State and the Cuban regime, against relatives of political prisoners in Cuba, and reported that he brought them to the attention of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The study revealed eight groups of operational actions of the political police against relatives and relatives of prisoners of conscience, to the detriment of their rights, property and labor relations, warning them of what they put at risk if they act contrary to official interest.
Government strategies consist of “monitor, intervene or suppress the use of the Internet by family members to silence or reduce their presence in social networks and independent media outlets; exhort not to organize legal defense actions before national and international organizations; infiltration of trusted agents or subjects; and conditional offer of legal benefits or forced expatriation”, denounced the OCDH.
Protesters in front of the Radio and Television Institute while they are mounted on a truck in Cuba (EFE/Ernesto Mastrascusa/File)
He then affirmed that the actions try to break the relationships of familiarity and affection, to achieve the greatest isolation and silence of the victims of repression, make surveillance visible, organize processes of arrests and interrogations and job dismissals, cancel business or work licenses individuals, violate the domicile, intimacy and private physical and electronic correspondence; and coordinate social repudiation in workplaces and neighborhoods, among other operational forms.
“The authorities continue to use mechanisms of terror as a dissuasive element. In a percentage, it manages to generate fear and the abandonment of civic behavior, leaving emigration as the only fundamental way of escaping from the designed pattern of harassment and repression”, underlined the OCDH.
< p class=”paragraph”>And he concluded: “We warn of the increase in persecution and repression towards this universe of relatives and close associates, which constitutes a persistent pattern of manifest and reliably proven violations of human rights.”
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